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How to Cope
with Pain without Being a Pain!
I had the "worse pain known to mankind." Had the cure
not killed me, I would have taken my own life had it not been for my desire to live for my new grandaughter, Kadyn Ann Daniel.
My talk is an inspirational story
about overcoming Trigeminal Neuralgia, a rare and painful nerve disease that sidetracked my public speaking career and my
life for two-and-a-half years. I lost my ability to eat solid food and eventually to speak more than a few words at a time.
My surgeon said a patient told him TN was worse than bone cancer, which he had, too.
Here are the lessons I learned that I share with my audiences:
- Experiencing
pain can make you a better person once you have learned by going through the pain.
- You find yourself in a state of awareness like you’ve never known before.
- You see how fragile your body, mind, feelings and spirit can be and, at the
same time, see their durability.
- You
now adjust your way of living to accommodate the changes needed to heal and keep yourself mentally, emotionally and spiritually
fit
- Ultimately,
as with all of our pain, you have to work it out with the God of your understanding. When you make peace with God’s
children (and remember that you, too, are one of God’s children) you make peace with God as well.
- "A day of healing begins when you decide you are worthy. You see just how
priceless you are. You feel that you are something to the world and the people around you. Grab hold to the chain that you
have allowed to bind you to nothing and live because you are something. You smile because you can. You stand because you choose
to see what is in store. Today is a day of healing."
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